Employers Not As Impressed By Potential Hire's Degree In Excel Shortcuts As Previously Thought

...but now faculty members, school administrators and corporate recruiters are questioning the value of a business degree at the undergraduate level. The biggest complaint: The undergraduate degrees focus too much on the nuts and bolts of finance and accounting and don't develop enough critical thinking and problem-solving skills through long essays, in-class debates and other hallmarks of liberal-arts courses. Companies say they need flexible thinkers with innovative ideas and a broad knowledge base derived from exposure to multiple disciplines. And while most recruiters don't outright avoid business majors, companies in consulting, technology and even finance say they're looking for candidates with a broader academic background...Such changes should appease recruiters, who have been seeking well-rounded candidates from other disciplines, such as English, economics and engineering. Even financial companies say those students often have sharp critical-thinking skills and problem-solving techniques that business majors sometimes lack. [WSJ]

6 December 2012. Do you know the significance of this date? It was the day "an MBA holder, active MENSA member, alumnus from both the 'best public high school in the USA' according to the Wall Street Journal and the best private high school (Philips Academy Andover) in America" was treated "in a manner [considered] highly offensive and unusual in ANY* Western nation," by a HR representative of a firm from which he was seeking employment. And although said "MBA holder, active MENSA member, alumnus from both the 'best public high school in the USA' according to the Wall Street Journal and the best private high school (Philips Academy Andover) in America" was already informed that he was unqualified for the job he'd applied for, a 1,057 word email detailing his experience and informing the company that he was calling shotgun on rejecting them, plus a threat, nay, a promise to go public with his grievances, seemed in order.